Havana, November 13 (Reinaldo Cosano Alén / www.cubanet.org) - Civil
employees of the state-run National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP) tried to
pressure two farmers into giving away their land in exchange of an apartment and
a job cleaning the streets.
The two brothers, Jorge and Omar Morán Hernández, owners of
Carolina farm, located in the Cuban province Villa Clara, were visited by local
leaders of the ANAP with the proposition.
"My brother and I said to them: You go clean the horseshit off the
streets! Besides we don't like to live boxed in those pigeon houses you call
apartments. You two have fattened up and look so clean, you don't look like
farmers anymore. You go clean the horseshit off the streets! We like to work the
land", declared Jorge.
According to the brothers, there is no electricity on the area they live.
"Forty years of revolution and our property is still with no
electricity. Our mother is ill and in summer she must fan herself with a piece
of cardboard. Instead of trying to take the land from us, the ANAP should bring
electricity to this area", the farmer added.
On the first years of Castro's take over most of the island farms were
siezed by the government and confiscated, although some farmers managed to
retain possession of their small properties. But these farmers are being
constantly harassed and pressured into giving up their ownership and join the
state-controlled cooperatives.
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